Bryan McKenrick from American Tactical Defense presented to the Board his safety training that he provides to schools. His training consists of Active Shooter Instructors/Subject Matter Experts with the only training program created in the United States. The training is approximately 3-3.5 hours long. This training will empower all staff to respond to an active shooter/violent intruder incident properly. Some examples of the training were, Immediate response, initial medical trauma training, escaping, stopping the intruder, post incident and police response. 

• Lacey our PAC president joined us and provided some highlights:
• We surpassed our goal for the fun run. Total as of last night was $21,227.
• Welcome Picnic was a huge success. There were 4-5 new families present.
• Community Clean-Up Day is 4/19.
• Carnival is in full spring. There will be lots of vendors, rock climbing wall, food by Tipsy Goat, Mr. Softie will be returning this year.
• Volunteer requests will be going out soon.
• The week of May 1st is teacher appreciation week.

There is a potential applicant for the governing Board committee.

Safety School Culture and Academic Excellence meeting coming up April 25th.

Dr. Kelly spoke of the following:

• Current enrollment is 364 (64 in Homeschool, 80 in Middle School, 220 in K-5)
• Of lottery spots offered, 68 have accepted spots in our classroom program
• 75 spots have been offered and accepted in our homeschool program
• Kinder information meeting:
• We will have another parent information session on April 29th.
• Career Day: 
• Career day was a huge success with 24 parents volunteering. 
• Students had very positive things to say and were excited about the variety of industries they learned about.

LCAP: 

• Gathering data and refining school wide goals and action plans. 
• Opportunities for educational partners to provide feedback and engage in discussion through May. 
• April 5th: Whole Child Education discussion looking at SEL Data
• April 25th: Academic Excellence Committee meeting 
• May 1st: Strategic Planning and Goal Setting session
• May 8th: Public Hearing for LCAP Goals
• Final LCAP will be approved at June Board mtg.

Curriculum updates: 

• Literacy committee has decided to continue utilizing lexia for reading development next year.
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• Literacy committee has recommended using CKLA Amplify for grades 1-5 next year.
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• Leadership committee has determined it necessary to continue focusing on Diversity and Culturally responsive teaching. We are looking into pre-service professional development. 
• We will continue our professional learning cycle by developing a committee focused on inquiry based learning by the end of the school year. 

Assistant Director:

• Women's History Expo- 6-8th grade participated in this. This was presented to parents and also to K-5 classrooms. This was a huge success.
• Field Trip Highlights- Our 8th grade field trip is coming up this week, and the kids will be going to Catalina.
• 1st grade has been going on a lot of field trips this year. For example, tide pools, Santa Barbara Museum, Chumash etc. These have been all hands on learning, and very exciting. 
• Graduation is June 12th, and is at 7:00 on the blacktop. All are welcome to attend. 

Rudy wanted to table this agenda item and bring it back to the next Board meeting in May. The paperwork isn't quite ready to vote on this item.